You may already know that I went through a period of burnout from around 2019 to 2023. You may also know the backstory of my Storms in Amethir series. Today I want to revisit that a little as prelude to explaining how and why things are changing with the Storms in…
Today’s post is about HB90, productivity, and writing. But first, a little context. For the past year and a half, my day-job title has been Editorial Assistant and Project Manager. My job has involved writing and editing news articles, feature articles, and other copy. But the larger part of my…
It’s December again, and it seems like in modern western culture that means stress. Stress about time commitments, family commitments or lack thereof, present-buying, present-wrapping, crowd-fighting, traffic backups… The list goes on and on. It’s all too easy for me to succumb to the stress of the season–until I remind…
There’s been a lot of silence over here, hasn’t there? I was in a huge slump, so I decided at the last minute to do NaNoWriMo this year–with a completely different project and absolutely no outline. It was definitely a good decision! I’ve written 8 days in a row and…
I know it’s been very quiet here. I haven’t been doing a lot of writing over the past couple of years. But today I’m posting because I have a story in an anthology that releases today! G is for Ghosts is the most recent installation in Rhonda Parrish’s Alphabet Anthologies…
Who’s ready for The Weather War? I know I am! I can’t wait to hear what everyone thinks of the novel. It’s been quite a journey trying to get this just right–but I am one-hundred-percent confident that, by delaying the release of the novel, I’ve made The Weather War the best novel it…
A couple of weeks ago, I went on vacation. A lot of it was sight-seeing and hiking, the sort of thing I like to do in my free time. But I also spent one day doing some very important Weather War ship research–which had the bonus of being amazingly fun. I…
One thing I absolutely love about writing urban fantasy is how many little details of life in the Indianapolis area I can squeeze in. (Another thing I love is how easy it is to research, compared to something set in a completely made-up secondary world!) I spent a lot of…
One of the best things about being a writer is how you can live so many different lives through your fiction. In one of my manuscripts, I have a character, Evan Maddox, who drives a brand new Chevy Camaro, because he likes loud and flashy things and has an almost reckless…
I have a Bachelor of Arts in History and Creative Writing. That BA in History taught me a lot about doing research and how to pick good sources. I’ve always had a love of research, from the time I was the kid who couldn’t get her hands on enough books…
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